The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-11

their Superi0rs the sugar -cane marKo
rises so that none but the wealthiest
class of rag-pickers and chicken
thieves can afford to gorge themselves
on the saccharne pulp. The more
arstocratic classes of Chinese such as
pawnbrokers. BARRIERS, and iish-ped.
diers. do not patronze the sugar cane
merchant extensively, preferrlng to tor
off banquet with stewed birds nests
flapjacks of lily powder. rats liver
brochette, or the fins of Il juvenile sharl
fried to Il beautiful brown crisp in axl,
grease. The del ghtfu tourist, il tn,
market is at its condition, invests il
some of the toothsome poles. and, after
converting his internal economy into
lumber yard. goes on his round d
pleasure full of enthusiasm and unre
fined sugar.
He next takes in the fish market and
is much impressed by the simple man
ners and open placid countenance o.
the shrimp peddler, who has just CONF
in from Hunters po.nt to dispose o
his mornings catch. Shrimps are
great cur osily to the tourists from the
middle or western states, especially rs
and line Everyone of the strangers
from the Atlantic states is not sufficient
ly versed in piscatoral arts to know
that the shrimp is wooed with a net
from his sandy retreats along the odor.
ferrous shores of Butchertown BAY. The
amount of information on the subject
of shrimps and fishing generally which
the inquisitive tourist gets in Chinatown
will never give him brain fever. Every
white man who goes into the China
town fish market dressed like person
of influence and bent upon the acqui
sition of knowledge. is looked upon a:
dangerous spy, who has dozen writs
and subp9nas in his pocket. The cody
fisherman lives in open violation OF the
laws of the land with regard to the sizes
of nets, the close season, and Other
provisions for the preservation of fish.
He sweeps the bay ceaselessly with hi.
mosquito bars aud catches everything
that comes his way, from shrimp to
a man-eating shark. He never casts
back anything into the water because
of its youth or immaturity, and is
therefore pursued by the fish commits
sioner's deputies as foe to the fishing
industry. The tourist who drops into
the market with note of inter- ogatior
in his eye is therefore put down by the
whole Chinese population of the place
as an oflicious minion of the fish com
missioners, and received with ominou.
silence and scowls. After vain en-.
deavor to elicit some information H.
pigeon English to tourist departs, con-
vinced that while the chinese fisherman
is very industrious individual he is
also lacking in the sociable character
istics of other classes of his countrymen,
like the cobbler and the pork-butcher.
As he strolls toward his hotel for
lunch the tourist stops to observe q
Monaghan, with a red button in his
alpaca cap, drilling holes in some little
hemisphercs that look like ink-bottles.
This parsonage proves to be deaf and
dumb, as far as appearances go. he
does not even lift his eyes from his
work when questioned as to what he is
doing, and the tourist finally wearies
of his efforts 10 extract an answer, and
goes home bordering over the sight OF
Chinatown and the diligence of the
deaf-mute vender of Mongolian ink.
bottles. The supposed mute is in real
ity the willy individual who keeps in re-
pair all the opium pipes needed on the
block, who directs victims of the terri
BILE habit to convenient dens, supplies
young smokers with the deadly drug
and keeps a watchful eye after the
police lest they organize raid on the
establishments of his patrons. He is
far from deaf or dumb, as the tourist
imagined. for that individual has not
turned the corner before the willy Mon
golian lifted his eyes from his work and
remarked to pig-taled pard: "Da
yank-kay tazur tee hai-o-lay shun poo
ton song moy tsz," which being inter
preted, means: Here's another for
eign devil come around from the news
papers to burn us up again. MAY the
cobblcstones trip him up and break his
long neck"